FOUR SISTERS OF JOSIE

Henry Chezem - about 1900

This church was completed and dedicated on March 14, 1886. The building committee of that church formed in August, 1886, comprised George H. Thimble, WA Hamburger, CE Lye, George Hunter, Benjamin O. Anderson and J.N. Lender. The corner stone was placed October 3, 1885. This neat church home, at Second and Cedar streets, is still serving as the house of worship for this congregation.

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One Ancestry tree has Ben's father as

And mother as

Alaska WWI registration - Freihage, John Peter, self-employed carpenter , born 29 Feb 1876 Mary Elizabeth Reihage relative lives Brooks AK signed up in Tanana AK - residence could be Tanana, as well.

Reference Number: king county archmr_02454

Groom's Name: Harold Malstrom

Bride's Name: Florence Pearl Brown

Marriage Date: 07-31-1896

They dropped an "m" when moving to Washington

In 1876 McPherson County, Kansas, Smoky Hill precinct, are J.F. Christina, Viktor, Harald, B. Anderson, and Carl Haden? 24 years old, born in Sweden.

In 1880 Lindsborg (Little Sweden), McPherson County, Kansas is the J.F. Malmstrom family. He was born in Sweden about 1840, and is a clerk in a lumberyard. Wife Christina also born in Sweden, about 1844.

Victor H (Hugo). is 7,

Harald H. is 5,

Gustave A. is 4, and

R.F. (son) is 2.

B. Anderson, brother-in-law, 24, born in Sweden, is a clerk in a store.

The 1885 Tacoma, Washingon census has a J.F. Malmstrom, carpenter.

Name: Britta Christine Malstrom Date Of Death: 7 Mar 1924 Age: 79

Father Name: Johan Anderson

Death Place: Tacoma, Pierce, Washington

Name: Gus Malstrom Date Of Death: 27 May 1956 Age: 80

Father Name: John F. Malstrom Mother Name: Christina Anderson

Death Place: Tacoma, Pierce, Wash. Mother Name Gn: Christina Mother Name Surname: Anderson

Name: Kathryn M. Malstrom Date Of Death: 5 Feb 1921 Age: 15

Father Name: Victor H. Malstrom Mother Name: Kathryn E. Blake

Death Place: Tacoma, Pierce, Washington

Mother Name Kathryn E. Mother Name Surname: Blake

Name: Victor H. Malstrom Date Of Death: 16 Mar 1928 Age: 54

Father Name: John Malstrom Mother Name: Christine Anderson

Death Place: Tacoma, Pierce, Washington

Spouse Kathryn Malstrom

MALSTROM, A. Feb 21, 1900 from Vancouver, WA entered the Yukon at Chikoot checkpoint.

Olive Evelyn Malstrom was born on 15 February 1903 in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA, a daughter of Ryner Frederick and Hettie Grace Haynes Malstrom. Ryner was employed as a druggist in 1910 and as a pharmacist in 1920. Olive married Emil Henry Carl about 1927, probably in Seattle, King County, WA. Emil was a student at the University of Washington in 1917 when he filled out his WWI Draft Registration card, but was employed as a coal truck driver in 1930. Had to be related.

In 1910 "Bertha" is widowed, living with son Victor , Catherine, and two children in Tacoma. Victor runs a drug store.

In 1920 Christina, 75, widowed is living with son Victor and family on 6^th Avenue in Tacoma. Victor is proprietor of a drug store.

Gustave is still a printer in Tacoma, is married to Harriet, with three children.

Ryner is a pharmacist living on 38^th street in Seattle - and he and Hattie have seven children, including eleven-year-old Harriet. In 1928 Harriet Malstrom was attending the University of Washington - Seattle - and was a member of the "Town Girls" - area residents.

10. Charlie Carl ROBERTS b 31 May 1900 Panther WV, d 1988 Aberdeen, WA, md 23 Dec 1927, Tacoma, WA to Lena MALSTROM

The Yukon Sun of April 19, 1902 reported on a of the Arctic Brotherhood. Among the attendees were Captain and Mrs. Roedeger Capt. and daughter (newspaperman and family) and a Miss Anderson.

Wonder if the is "Babe" using her non-professional name or Louise visiting. The Arctic Brotherhood was a big group - its hall could hold a thousand people for meetings.

Name: Theodore Marcius Ihrig

Birth Date: 111??10 Location: Seattle

Sex: Male Race: White

Father's Name: William ?? Ihrig

Mother's Name: Florence G Warnick

The Minister was interesting, too. Coming to Canada from England as a very young boy to be a student farmer, taking part in the colorful life of the dominion as a member of the Royal North West Mounted Police, a Winnipeg business man and later ordained to the priesthood of the Anglican church in Dawson City, Rev. Canon J. W. Comyn-Ching of Christ Church and Mrs. Comyn-Ching, daughter of a pioneer English family in Canada, will receive the congratulations of hosts of friends everywhere on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday, June 17.

In the pretty month of June in the old St. Matthew's church, Winnipeg, twenty-five years ago, Margaret Jane Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilcox, became the bride of James (should be John) Morton Comyn-Ching son of the late James Morton Comyn-Ching of Bredgar House, Bredgar, Kent, England. The romance had started in the Sunday school room of the church in which Mrs. Comyn-Ching taught and Mr. Comyn-Ching was a lay reader and the Rev. St. George Buttrum performed the ceremony. Later the new St. Matthew's church was built on the site of the home of Mrs. Comyn-Ching's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilcox who are new residents of San Fransisco.

To Yukon Mission Field

In 1906 Canon Comyn-Ching was appointed to the Yukon Mission field and with his wife was stationed at Eldorado and Bonanza, where in the same year he was ordained to deacon's orders.

In 1903 he was called to St. Paul's Cathedral, Dawson City, where he was ordained on February 16 of that year, with the Right Rev. I. O. Stringer, D. D., Bishop of the Yukon and the Venerable Archdeacon Canada officiating. In 1910 Canon and Mrs. Comyn-Ching went to Souris, Manitoba, where the former was created rural dean. From there they went to Vernon, B.C. and St. Mary's church, Victoria. Shortly after the war Canon Comyn-Ching came to Edmonton as secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and from there went to St. Luke's church, Revelstoke, B.C., and in 1921 was called to Christ Church, Edmonton.

On Sunday, May 6 of this year, at the morning service, at All Saint's Cathedral, the rector of Christ church was created a canon of Saint Aidan with the Right Rev. H. A. Gray, Bishop of Edmonton, officiating.

Mr. and Mrs. Comyn-Ching have three children; Mr. Reginald Comyn-Ching, Miss Gladys Comyn-Ching, Miss Margaret Comyn-Ching - and one grandchild - Joan, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Comyn-Ching.

Ever wonder why that body of water known as Icy Strait was called that name? During early exploration, it was full of calved icebergs from Glacier Bay. On occasion, the fields of ice were of such magnitude as to threaten ship navigation. Icy Strait invited disaster!

On February 16, 1910, the Alaska Steamship steamer Yucatan, bound from Valdez to Seattle, proceeded at slow speed in Icy Strait, creeping through the ice. Captain Porter was on the bridge with the pilot Captain John Johnson keeping watch. Two versions of what happened next are in newspapers. One states that suddenly an iceberg loomed ahead, but appeared to be small enough to push aside by the hull. Unfortunately, the iceberg was enormous underwater. The steamer rammed it, tearing a great hole in the side of the vessel.

The New York Times tells another story: The ship was sailing through slush ice in a snow storm when it hit an iceberg 25 feet long and 15 feet high. The berg broke into two huge pieces. This swerved the Yucatan off course, and she struck a reef and tore a hole in her side. Later reports also mention a reef.

Full steam ahead was ordered, and the ship was beached in Mud Bay (on Chichagof Island, near Goose Island) and sank eight minutes after the strike. The lifeboats were lowered and all on board were taken ashore on Goose Island without mishap or confusion. The 10 women were taken off first. Food, bedding and some of the U.S. mail were saved at that time, but personal belongings were left on the stranded ship.

The castaways found cabins on shore, according to the Juneau paper. The New York Times said men built huts and made tents with sails from the ship. No matter, with sufficient food, clothing, blankets, and a huge fire the people were able to spend the night "camping."

Soon after the people landed, Captain Johnson and some sailors rowed a lifeboat 15 miles before encountering the steamer Alexandria. The captain would relay the news of the disaster. Either 65 or 70 passengers and part of the crew arrived in Juneau on the February 18, and several days later left for the South on the Cottage City.

Wind-driven rain and salt water formed ice over the wrecked steamer until it was a solid mass resembling an iceberg. The crew had difficulty keeping icebergs from colliding with the ship. The remaining mail, some of it underwater for a week, was solidly encased in this ice and could not be removed until March 4th. The mail continued to come from the wreck for several weeks. Each piece was dried out, re-sacked and forwarded to its original destinations. Each piece was stamped "Recovered from the Yucatan wreck"

Floating icebergs prevented immediate salvage of the steamer.

The great majority of Dawson's residents had left, so it was not a big town - and the Malstrom residence 3^rd Avenue was not far away. Malstrom and Service were approximately the same age, too.

Harold may have even written the August 12, 1911 article about Service's last arrival in Dawson, where Service said of his lost weight "I can count the sections in my backbone" by feeling from his navel...

Joe Boyle was a former hockey player, and in 1902 he built Dawson City an arena - complete with electrical power plant, training rooms, lounges, and saloon - that rose three stories above the slag and bald hills surrounding it. Spectators paid a dollar to watch the teams of his four-team league: the North West Mounted Police, the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association, the civil service, and the general population. In 1904, Boyle selected an all-star team from his league and used his sundry business connections back east to get his formal three-game... challenge for the Stanley Cup accepted.

The reigning champions were the Ottawa Hockey Club, known then as the Silver Seven. In the previous two years, they had won the Cup in a league playoff and defended it from a record five challengers. They were the first Stanley Cup dynasty, and they were not much loved outside of the capital. The Silver Seven represented the seat of power, money, comfort, and eastern primacy. Three of their skaters had played together for nearly a decade. Three also started on the Ottawa Roughriders football team, one as the quarterback. One was into the sixth year of his heavyweight boxing title. Six of the seven would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Ottawa's best player, and hockey's first real star, was "One-Eyed" Frank McGee. McGee was an Ottawa aristocrat, the son of the Clerk of the Privy Council and the nephew of one of Canada's founding fathers. Four years earlier, during a charity match played to raise money for the Canadian effort in the Boer War, an errant stick had shucked McGee's left eye from his face. But when he returned to hockey, his new dead eye didn't prevent him from averaging more than three goals per game. A finesse centerman, McGee could nonetheless lower a shoulder and physically dominate if his quick temper was stoked.

Boyle wanted to be the one to beat McGee and the Silver Seven. It was partly a business decision: His novel mining team was the perfect advertisement for his timber concessions, saw mills, and shipping docks. But it was also consistent with what lured him to the Yukon in the first place: an indestructible prize to work after, a solution to seek. If his team won the Cup, Boyle figured it would remain perched over the bar in his arena forever. Any team that dared challenge him would have had to cross the Chilkoot and Dead Horse passes roped together in antlike columns before walking hundreds of miles up the frozen Yukon River to Dawson City.

The Dawson City Nuggets, as Boyle called them, averaged 160 pounds a man. His forwards were Hec Smith, George "Sureshot" Kennedy, and Norm Watt, all prospectors who'd rushed to Dawson in 1898 and failed to strike it rich. Smith was a slight Native American. The forward pass hadn't yet been legalized, so he was the spearhead of Dawson's offense, carrying the puck up ice and stickhandling through defenders easy as practiced hands braiding leather. Sureshot Kennedy patrolled Smith's left wing. He was a solid man whose wide miner's forearms were fanned with deltic veins. He was one of the first to be described as having a "heavy" shot. Fired in stride, Kennedy's shot seemed to gain mass and density in flight before rattling spent in the cage behind goaltenders. Norm Watt was a vicious right winger one head shorter than most on the ice. His style of play marked him as an ur-agitator: He squawked at opponents while flitting around the rink, leading with his stick extended like a curious snipe's beak. He threw dirty hits, but suffered others' poorly.

On defense was J.K. "Gloomy" Johnstone, a Dawson constable in his early 20s who worked with Norm Watt at the post office. His game was hardy and unassuming, what would now be called stay-at-home defense. His partner was Lorne Hannay, who had lost to the Silver Seven the year prior as part of the unsuccessful challenge of Brandon, Manitoba. Dr. D.R. McLennan played the now-extinct position of rover. He had lost the Stanley Cup to the Montreal Victorias in 1895 as a member of the Queen's University team. He was the only Nugget to skate with a full Victorian mustache, waxed to points.

In goal for the first time in his young life was Albert Forrest,. Forrest was born in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, to a man who took his family with him to the California gold fields. When his father ran off to mine Dawson, Forrest pursued him north, stumbling in off the Chilkoot a hard and silent 11-year- old. He was the ace of the Dawson Amaranths rotation (14 strikeouts his record), and he had swept the skating competitions at the previous two Dawson Amateur Athletic Association winter carnivals. A pure athlete but also pugnacious, fat-lipped, and sullen. In net he gave notice to those who would crowd his crease by chopping at their ankle bones.

The Nuggets' captain and coach was Weldy Young, an older gentleman "with a permanent scowl on his face." Young starred for the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1893 to 1899, their "only world-calibre hockey player in the early 1890s." He was staunch and domineering on the back end, one half of the era's greatest defense pairing. Opponents called him a thug. Young was also credited as the first defenseman to wind up behind his own net and lead the rush up ice. He lost the Stanley Cup to Montreal in 1894, was charged with brutality in a game in Quebec in 1895, and left Ottawa in disgrace after that when he climbed into the stands and attacked a loudly critical home supporter. In 1900 he followed the gold dream to Dawson, where he staked the largest dump on the lower reaches of Dominion Creek. He never hit pay dirt, and he supported himself by working as an administrator in the Dawson recorder's office. Had he stuck with Ottawa, he would've been a part of the Silver Seven Cup dynasty and most likely a future inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

On December 18, 1904, Hec Smith, Sureshot Kennedy, and the team trainer left Dawson City by dog sled. The rest followed the next day on bicycles because there was little snow on the frozen ground. They were traveling 330 miles to Whitehorse, the nearest Yukon city. From there they planned to board the White Pass & Yukon Railway for Skagway, Alaska; then they would travel by steamer to Vancouver, where they would take a train to Ottawa. They all were paying their own way - $3000 in all - for the chance to steal the Stanley Cup north and hide it away forever.

One newspaper stated that "these hardy northerners rolled and tumbled in the snow like kittens at play all along the long journey, stopping occasionally for a snowball battle." According to the Ottawa Evening Journal, a much more accurate newspaper: "The first day the Klondikers covered 46 miles, the second 41. The third day saw them struggling to cover 36 miles, some suffering with blistered feet. To proceed, these had to remove their boots. It may give an idea of the hardship they faced when it is recorded that the temperature sank to 20 degree below zero during the mush." They left their broken bicycles and useless dog sleds behind and walked barefoot through primeval forest, the only noise the wind that buffeted them and burned their faces.

Eleven days later they arrived in Whitehorse. They were mobbed by well-wishers and put up in a hotel. While they slept, a blizzard blew in and crippled the railways. When they finally arrived by rail in Skagway, three days later, they were again feted by a huge crowd. Word of their trial had reached as far as Nome. The ship they had planned to take to Vancouver had waited a day for them before departing two hours before their arrival. They spent three more days in Skagway. For spectacle moreso than fitness, Dr. McLennan took them daily to the Skagway River where they stripped down and plunged into the freezing water.

Weldy Young had been held back in Dawson City. His position at the recorder's office required that he stay and oversee the December 16 federal election. Boyle had tried earlier to have the games postponed so that the team could leave with Young, but to no avail. When Young heard that his teammates were delayed, he took off for Ottawa as soon as all the votes were tallied. More than any other Nugget, he wanted to take the Stanley Cup from the team that had won it again and again as soon as they were rid of him.

As Young was leaving Dawson, the rest of the Nuggets were boarding a steamer for a three-day trip to Seattle. The ship weaved between the coastal islands of the Inside Passage to avoid bad weather, but the sea was still roiling. The Nuggets tried to jump rope the first day but were soon incapacitated by seasickness. What little they ate they vomited over the rails until they had exhausted themselves.

They arrived in Seattle weak and weather-beaten, and boarded a train for Ottawa. They had their own private car, but the only exercise they could manage between the clacking swells was wind sprints on station platforms. At each stop - Calgary, Medicine Hat, Regina, Brandon, Winnipeg - the Dawson City Nuggets were met by huge crowds. To the pilgrims, squatters, and other marginal people; to those who had woken up one morning and left their jobs and wives behind to "go over the rainbow" - in short, to the people of the West - the Dawson City Nuggets were the closest they would ever come to a home team. The Nuggets were cheered as men who had now done twice what many back East feared do: journey to stake a claim. Everywhere were hung banners imploring them, "Beat the Silver Seven."

They finally reached Ottawa on January 11, 1905, after 25 days of travel. It was said that when one of the Cup trustees saw the Nuggets stumble off the train, he was "aghast."

Dey's Arena was a low building of brick and wood at the edge of Ottawa. 2,200 spectators shook its elevated bleachers; the building smelled of sawdust and grease. The wan filaments in glass bulbs strung above the ice pushed the gloom to the corners of the rink. The Dawson City Nuggets lined up on the cloudy ice opposite the Silver Seven one day after their arrival. They chafed in the brand-new sweaters Joe Boyle bought them: black trimmed with gold claimed by some to have been spun from Yukon ingots. Governor General Earl Grey dropped the puck.

The Silver Seven came out strong and tried to overwhelm Dawson City. They pressed in on young Forrest, who stood strong in his crease and made several outstanding saves in the early going. The Nuggets could only counter with shots from distance. Norm Watt's forehead was sliced open when he was body checked by an Ottawa player who carried his stick high; Watt fought him, and both were sent off. For nine minutes the pace was electric and the game scoreless.

Dawson at last generated a good scoring chance on Ottawa's net, but one of the Silver Seven picked up the rebound and leveled a pass to McGee, who fired a shot through defenseman J.K. Johnstone's legs and past a screened Forrest, 1-0 Ottawa. Two and a half minutes later, McGee assisted on another goal, 2-0 Ottawa. Dawson pressed. Small, insurgent Hec Smith raided Ottawa's end but was stopped. Then the Silver Seven scored again, 3-0.

Dawson surged off of the following faceoff. Hec Smith flew between the Silver Seven in their own zone like a lightfoot in a familiar wood. He got the puck to Dr. McLennan, who shot it home, 3-1. The Nuggets piled atop McLennan and screamed as though what it was they set out to do were done. The Silver Seven leaned on their sticks and watched them, bemused.

The two teams pushed the play into equilibrium. Halftime was called at the 30-minute mark, Ottawa up only two goals. For 30 minutes, Dawson City had matched the greatest hockey team in the world almost stride for stride.

The second half started tentatively, both teams content to simply clear the puck from their defensive zone. But as the game wore on, Dawson's play became ragged. Ottawa scored to make it 4-1, and then stopped Dawson on two scoring chances. The Silver Seven began to possess the puck in the offensive zone with crisp combinations and fluid movement. Together they worked over the Nuggets' defense as though picking at a stubborn knot. Dawson's turns were no longer tight nor their stops sharp. Ottawa scored - 5, 6, 7-1. A frustrated Albert Forrest slashed one of the Silver Seven and was sent off. Lorne Hannay filled in for him, and Ottawa scored two more.

Later, Norm Watt tripped a defenseman who responded by slashing him on the mouth. When no penalty was called on the play, Watt charged the player from behind and broke his stick over his head, knocking the Ottawan unconscious. The Nuggets went shorthanded for the rest of the game, 9-2 the final.

According to the Ottawa Evening Journal, the Nuggets "could hardly stand on their skates and they went to their hotel as limp as wet rags." But they were unbowed. Albert Forrest complained that six of Ottawa's goals were offside, and even the Journal admitted that three shouldn't have counted. Two others were scored after Hannay was forced to play goal. The Nuggets hadn't been allowed to play any warm-up games en route to Ottawa and were missing their best player and felt terribly out of shape, but to their minds it had been a 2-1 win. The Journal somewhat agreed: "It was only when the Yukonites tired and showed the effect of their long journey that Ottawa began to pile on the score." They were buoyed by the thought of Weldy Young joining them if they could win the next game and force a third. And they had held "One-Eyed" McGee to a single goal.

In a saloon after the game, an unspecified member of the Nuggets (Norm Watt the likeliest) declared to some of the gathered Silver Seven: "And McGee, famous Frank McGee, he wasn't much. All we've heard for 10 months is how great he is. He wasn't much at all."

If Frank McGee was playing in spite of a wrist injury, as has been speculated, he wouldn't have been the first to play hurt for the Stanley Cup. That honor belongs to Magnus Flett of the Winnipeg Victorias, who suffered bruised ribs in the 1901 finals against Toronto but was "of the right kind of grit, however," and "a man hard to kill, and he pluckily stayed out the fight."

The second game began with the ferocious pace of the first. Ottawa scored early when four of the Silver Seven traced a tessellation of short passes that ended inside the net. They added another immediately after and continued to besiege Forrest in his crease. He stymied them for several minutes, his only equipment a black toque, hockey stick, and brown cricket pads covering his legs.

And then Hec Smith scored on a counterattack. Again the Nuggets fell over themselves in a flagrant celebration. This time the crowd exploded with them, perhaps understanding what they were witnessing: men standing as if before a Fury, holding their own in its face but barely, sneering at its strength, daring it gale harder. For the 10 minutes they had their legs, Dawson City was only one goal worse than Ottawa.

Then, with the previous night's insult fresh in his mind, Frank McGee took control of the game. He "was better than they said he was," according to one Hall of Fame coach. "He had everything - speed, stickhandling, scoring ability, and he was a punishing checker. He was strongly built but beautifully proportioned, and he had almost an animal rhythm. When he walked around the dressing room you could see his muscles ripple. They weren't the blacksmith's muscles either. They were the long muscles of the great athlete. You don't see many like him." After it became 3-1 Ottawa, McGee scored twice in 40 seconds. He scored twice more before the halfway point of the game. He played like something ineluctable, a force of nature. He scored seconds into the second half. He scored two more goals within 30 seconds. Then again a minute later. Then 10 seconds after that. McGee seemed to grow stronger and more unrelenting even as Dawson grew weaker and more defenseless. Following each goal he skated to center ice to crouch with his stick on his knees and his eye on the faceoff dot, ready to do it again. McGee scored 14 goals in all, his punishment for Dawson's journeying all that way thinking themselves not only equal to but better than the Silver Seven.

One of the following days' newspapers read, "Dawson never had the chance of a bun in the hands of a hungry boy." To another, "taking candies from a baby or robbing a child's bank couldn't have been easier." A third stated that "never has such a consignment of hockey junk come over the metals of the C.P.R." Still another: "The only man on the Dawson team who played a really fine game of hockey was Forrest, who in goal gave as fine an exhibition as the most exacting could desire. But for him Ottawa's figures might have been doubled."

When the score was 23-1, with little time on the clock and seemingly nothing left for the Nuggets to play for, Sureshot Kennedy dredged what little spirit was still in him and lugged the puck up the left wing through several of the Silver Seven. He tossed a blind, hopeful pass across the ice toward Hec Smith, who slapped it into the net. The game was called, 23-2.

After losing the Cup, the Nuggets played 23 exhibition games across eastern Canada, winning as many as they lost and recouping some of their travel expenses. The Stanley Cup trustees amended their rules for the next year: no longer would just any team be allowed to challenge for the Cup. Albert Forrest was the only one to return to Dawson City; he walked from Whitehorse alone.

"One-Eyed" Frank McGee retired after the Montreal Wanderers won the Cup from the Silver Seven in 1906, ending their streak of 10 straight Stanley Cups. A decade later he cheated on a vision test in order to serve in World War I. He died during the Battle of the Somme, the only Hall of Fame athlete to ever have been killed in action. His body was never recovered.

Ottawa engraved their win on the lip of the Stanley Cup: "OTTAWA 1905" and below that "Ottawa vs. Dawson." The engraving is on the original Cup, the replica Cup, and the presentation Cup; Dawson City will never be consigned to a vault. Assuming the average player's palm is about six inches wide, there is a one-in-six chance that when he grips the Cup by the bowl to raise it, he'll burnish Dawson with the heel of his hand.

The story of Dawson City's challenge is repeated in almost every work of Stanley Cup history even though it is only half-known. There are the specifics: the men who played, the voyage they took, the scores of their games and the general shape of the play. These come from a few yellowed and crumbling newspaper stories and the eyewitness accounts of the long-dead. The specifics of this story alone have warranted its perpetual retelling. But it is what's missing - whatever made Joe Boyle assemble the Nuggets in the first place; whatever was going through their hearts and minds as they suffered their humiliation; whatever would have been the tale's emotional and psychological...

connective tissue - which makes the story such a pervasive one in the hockey world. What isn't and can't be known about the most impossible attempt at the Cup is far more tantalizing than what is.

History won't complete the Nuggets' story, so every one of its tellers has had to fill in the rest himself. He has had to give the story context, and provide it the best explanation he could. History enlivens what is known, imagination, what might have been and still might be. Neither is adequate without the other. The specifics of the Nuggets' challenge were always only the bare bones; it has been the storytellers' interpretations that, like ligature, granted those bones support and power.

The half-known story of Dawson City belongs to a genre in which the most ancient and famous example is the legend of the Holy Grail. That story began as an unfinished twelfth-century poem. In it, a 15-year-old boy wanted to become a Knight of the Round Table, so he searched for a "graal," a medieval French noun that was a play on the verb "to delight." The grail of that story was a large gold dish inlaid with gemstones. Its creator died without having explained its provenance, or the question he himself put forward: "Whom does the grail serve?" In the 50 years following its publication, that story received four continuations by authors who tried to account for what the grail was and why it was important. For nearly a millennium now, other writers have created their own works around the grail. Imaginations have compounded imaginations, and the grail has become the Holy Grail: the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper; or the cup Jesus drank from during the crucifixion; or the bowl Joseph of Arimathea used to collect His leaking blood. In some Grail stories, it became a part of the Christian Mass or the center of its own secret rite or divorced from religion altogether. In all of them, though, the Grail was found only by those who made themselves worthy of it by enduring long, trying quests.

Once found, the Grail "gives such joy and delight to those who can stay in its presence that they feel as elated as a fish escaping from a man's hands into the wide water," wrote one author. In another continuation, the Grail "seemed to be a holy thing, and they hoped for so much virtue from it that they bowed down to it, despite all the pain they were suffering."

The Holy Grail, then, is a collective invention, formed like anything precious by the pressure of accretion, a thousand endings on top of one unfinished story. It has become important because people imagined it to be. To them it represents perfection, fleeting if at all possible. The answer to the question, "Whom does the grail serve?" Those who know its true nature.

Joe Boyle promised the Cup trustees he'd be back for their trophy. But he, too, entered World War I and never returned to hockey.

Following his death in 1923, an excerpt from the "Law of the Yukon," a poem by Robert W. Service, was chosen as his epitaph and engraved on his headstone:

And I wait for the men who will win me - and I will not be won in a day; And I will not be won by weaklings, subtle, suave and mild, But by men with the hearts of Vikings, and the simple faith of a child.

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In 1949, Weldon Pinchin got a job with Emil Forrest on the M.V. Loon.

One of their escapades included wedging an old boiler into a sand bar at the head of Lake Laberge, and then convincing a group of tourists on the SS Klondike that it was the boiler in which Sam McGee was cremated.

The below is a longer version of the "mush" story. - from the Dawson News.

To siwash once meant to travel quickly, deftly, and lightly, making use of natural shelters on the trail, or sleeping in the open as a First Nations person might do.

22 187 Malstrom Harold M Head M Oct 36

187 Malstrom Louise F Wife M Sep 33

Dawson was the second to the last stop that Will Rogers and Wylie Post made. Uncle Harold Malstrom was supposed to take them to dinner, but was too shy, so he gave his sister Harriet the money to do so, and she did. She took them to the restaurant in the hotel, and they had bear steak, while most of Dawson paraded by the window to see them. Harriet Malstrom also wrote an article about them. It was published in the Dawson Daily News, and the article was found in the coat pocket of Will Rogers when he died.

Yukon-born author Pierre Berton held a soft spot for the bi-weekly publication.

As a 10-year-old, Berton "began his journalistic career" by delivering his mother's copy to the offices of the Dawson Daily News.

Editor Harold Malstrom "had the stumps of his fingers, mangled in his linotype machine, to prove his dedication to his craft," wrote Berton.

In 1958 Berton's book gave thanks, including "Harold Malstrom of Tacoma, Washington."

Sec 4 Block 4--8 Auntie Louise Malstrom Sep 2,1877- Jun 7,1952

Name: Harold H Malstrom

Death Date: 12 Oct 1959

Death Place: Tacoma, Pierce, Washington Gender:

Male Race (Displayed on Form):

Age at Death: 85 years Estimated Birth Year: 1874

Father's Name: John F Malstrom: Mother's Name: Christina Anderson

Maybe he worked for Atlin Claim ............. Atlin, British Columbia 1899

SVEND JOHNSON, of the firm of McElhinney & Johnson, contractors, builders and manufacturers of brick, was born in Denmark, May 6, 1851, and came to America in 1868, residing in Racine, Wis.; was employed as a brickmaker until he came to Nebraska in May, 1870. Locating at Nebraska City, Otoe County, he was employed in a brickyard until the spring of 1876, when he joined D. M. McElhinney in his present business and came to Hastings in the following year, when the firm moved its base of operations to this point.

Swiftwater Bill Gates teamed up with Klondike entrepreneur Jack Smith to establish the Monte Carlo Dance Hall and Saloon, most famous of the Dawson pleasure palaces. Swiftwater then set out for San Francisco to bring back furniture, booze and dance-hall girls.

In 1902 Daisy was performing !

The piano playing has a large part in the "Shooting of Dan McGrew"

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;

The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;

Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,

And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou. ………

His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,

Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.

The rag-time kid was having a drink; there was no one else on the stool,

So the stranger stumbles across the room, and flops down there like a fool.

In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;

Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands - my God! but that man could play.

…….

Then on a sudden the music changed, so soft that you scarce could hear;

But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all that it once held dear;

That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a devil's lie;

That your guts were gone, and the best for you was to crawl away and die.

'Twas the crowning cry of a heart's despair, and it thrilled you through and through -

"I guess I'll make it a spread misere", said Dangerous Dan McGrew.

The music almost died away ... then it burst like a pent-up flood;

And it seemed to say, "Repay, repay," and my eyes were blind with blood.

The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,

And the lust awoke to kill, to kill ... then the music stopped with a crash,

And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way;

Wilson Mizner's scams included working as a gold weigher in a dance hall. (this could have been in Skagway or Nome, but likely Dawson) .While balancing the scales, Wilson would spill gold dust onto a carpet. At the end of the week Wilson burned the carpet then extracted the gold from the ashes. In a 1905 interview, Wilson claimed that this trick resulted in a weekly yield of a couple of thousand dollars.

He's credited with "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down".

"Tex" Rickard (later to found Madison Square Garden), Sid Graumann (yes, of the Chinese Theatre) were also in the Yukon. Tex tended bar in Dawson, shoulder to shoulder with Wilson Mizner, and chopped wood through one terrible winter in the frozen wilderness with Rex Beach, the best-selling novelist.

Where are the dames I used to know
In Dawson in the days of yore?
Alas, it's fifty years ago,
And most, I guess, have "gone before."
The swinging scythe is swift to mow
Alike the gallant and the fair;
And even I, with gouty toe,
Am glad to fill a rocking chair.

Ah me, I fear each gaysome girl
Who in champagne I used to toast,
or cozen in the waltz's whirl,
Is now alas, a wistful ghost.
Oh where is Touch The Button Nell?
Or Minnie Dale or Rosa Lee,
Or Lorna Doone or Daisy Bell?
And where is Montreal Maree?

Fair ladies of my lusty youth,
I fear that you are dead and gone:
Where's Gertie of the Diamond Tooth,
And where the Mare of Oregon?
What's come of Violet de Vere,
Claw-fingered Kate and Gumboot Sue?
They've crossed the Great Divide, I fear;
Remembered now by just a few.

A few who like myself can see
Through half a century of haze
A heap of goodness in their glee
And kindness in their wanton ways.
Alas, my sourdough days are dead,
Yet let me toss a tankard down . . .
Here's hoping that you wed and bred,
And lives of circumspection led,
Gay dance-hall girls o Dawson Town!

Robert Service was living in Dawson when Christina Barrington (Babe Wallace) died - after having "wed and bred"

Joseph E.N. Duclos (1863-1917) was born in Quebec but moved to Maine where he learned his photography skills. He and his wife Emily arrived in Dawson in 1898 via St. Michael and the Yukon River. Duclos worked as a miner on Lovett Gulch before joining Per Edward Larss in the photography firm of Larss and Duclos on April 1, 1899. Duclos specialized in studio portraits while Larss roamed the streets and the gold fields. They sold views of the Chilkoot Pass, Dawson and gold fields scenes taken in 1898 advertising "Thousands of negatives in stock". Larss and Duclos also sold film and supplies for amateurs. The firm was dissolved in 1904 when Larss left the Yukon but Duclos continued as a photographer in Dawson until 1912, when he sold his studio to E.O. Ellingsen. Duclos reported to Larss in 1905 that he was getting a fair share of the work although there was competition in the portrait business from Edward Adams and Mrs. Edith Goetzman. Joseph Duclos died of pneumonia after undergoing surgery in Alaska in 1917.

Reference Number: Pierce mc-vol4-135-DA2

Groom's Name: William Hill Barrington

Bride's Name: Christine Anderson

Marriage Date: 11 Jun 1904

June 1, 1911 Hill Barrington was purser on the Vidette, and he reported that it had landed a Canadian survey party at Rampart House on the Porcupine River.

September 12, 1923 the Dawson Daily News had a long story on
York Barrington killed in a hunting accident at Wrangell, at the age of twenty

November 1, 1916 the News said that Mrs. Hill Barrington had been visiting her mother Mrs. Hayward.
Hill was with the Side Stream Navigation Company.

Name: Hill W. Barrington

Date Of Death: 15 Jun 1911 Age: 31 Gender: Female

Father Name: B. O. Anderson Mother Name: Elizabeth Chezunn

Death Place: Seattle, King, Washington

ANDERSON CHRISTINE 1898 0919 F 006 (occupation code) KELCEY PT.3

WALLACE, BABE M. , post office listing of leaving in 1903 for Tacoma, WA

WALLACE, BABI Jun 3, 1898 at Chilkoot checkpoint entering - from Spokane, WA

Fred's WWI records say he was born April 9, 1873. He was born in Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska.

In 1885 his father Isaac is an auctioneer there, with no wife listed Fred is 12, and sister Hattie is 9. Said their mother was born in Iowa. With an auctioneer father, I can well imagine Fred's having a "gift of gab"

In 1920 I.S. Welch is living with son William, born 1971, in Millard, near Omaha in Douglas County. I.S. says he was widowed.. William owns a billiard parlor.

Wonder if he's the barber in Dawson City?

Welch F F, DC, YT, barber
Welch Frederick, DC, YT, barber

Dawson Daily News Jan.2,1900

The September 27, 1906 Fairbanks newspaper had a large ad for Willis & Welch, claiming "THE LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE IN ALASKA"

The Golden Gate Hotel had a July 6, 1908 ad saying "First Class - Home Comforts" Miss Hilda Nelson and Miss Ida Sampson, Proprieters. The same issue had a list of guests at the hotel. One of them was O.N. Nelson "city" Wonder if that's a father….

The August 9, 1906 Evening News said that Mable Anderson had eight letters waiting at the Fairbanks post office.

Johan Nilsen 1840 1926 rest in peace

Johanna Nilsen 1843 1916 with Johan Nilsen

Johanna Andersdotter (1843 - 1916)

Through the years the Nowogroskis traveled extensively, visiting Hawaii, Mexico, Europe, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Japan. They enjoyed skiing at Stevens Pass and Sun Valley, Idaho.

Mr. Nowogroski remained an avid Husky fan and was active in many local organizations, including Sigma Nu Fraternity, the Lions Club, the Seattle Yacht Club and the UW President's Club.

He retired from the insurance business in 1989. The secret of his success was simple, his wife said: "He loved people, and he was a great listener."

"People trusted him," said daughter Marilyn Nowogroski, a Seattle attorney. "He was always so straightforward. ... He was not 'slick.' "

Mr. and Mrs. Nowogroski celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary May 31, one week before Mr. Nowogroski's death from a heart attack. He had had heart trouble for several years, his wife said.

In addition to his wife and daughter, he is survived by his sister Dorothy Dunbar, of Seattle; son Jay and daughter-in-law Katie, of Walla Walla; and two grandchildren.

Katherine Elizabeth Bush, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, passed away unexpectedly on December 3, 2009 in Seattle, just days before her 93rd birthday. A lifelong resident of Seattle, Kay was born December 11, 1916 in Seattle to Hilda and John Heitmann. She graduated from Lincoln High School and received a Business degree from the University of Washington. Kay married husband Bob 68 years ago and dedicated her life to raising 3 sons, making time for her grandchildren, friends, and volunteer work. Kay was sharp, healthy, and remained very active until the day she died. Kay enjoyed golfing at Broadmoor Golf Club, where she was Captain of Women's golf in 1980. She loved knitting, sewing, playing duplicate bridge, walking daily and caring for others. Kay was a long time member of St. Stevens Church in Laurelhurst, giving many volunteer hours to the Cloud 9 Thrift Shop as well as many years of involvement with the Dr. F.A. Black Orthopedic Guild. Kay was a founding and current member of her Investment Club that has been in existence for over 40 years. Kay will be deeply missed by all of her family and many friends. She was preceded in death by sons John and Stephen. She is survived by her loving husband Bob, son Michael (wife Lynne); daughter-in-laws Gayle and Connie, grandchildren Morgann (Shane), Lindsay (Patrick), Stacey, Brian, Mitchell, Neil and Alexa, as well as 5 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister Beatrice, brother Earl, niece and nephews. A Celebration of Kay's Life will be held at Broadmoor Golf Club, December 16th at 2:30 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to Seattle Children's Hospital.

Published in The Seattle Times from December 13 to December 14, 2009

John Heitmann BUSH Age 65, beloved husband, son, father, grandfather and great friend, died unexpectedly on May 27, 2008. John was born March 16, 1943, raised in Seattle, graduated from Roosevelt High School then Central Washington University. At Central he met his loving wife Gayle, with whom he just celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary. They shared many passions including family, love for wine, travel, entertaining and time at their beach house. John followed in his grandfather's and father's footsteps into a lifelong career in the shipping industry. He recently retired as the Director of Operations at the Port of Tacoma. Professionally, he traveled extensively throughout the Far East, North America, Russia, Europe and Mexico. He loved to read, golf, play tennis, boat, and spend time at his beach house with family and friends. John was an active member of the Washington Athletic Club, Fircrest Golf Club, YMCA, Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club, GYRO, and American Leadership Forum (ALF). He served on boards for the YMCA and Central Washington University. He also served as an Honorary Commander 62nd Maintenance Squadron for McChord. He is preceded in death by his brother, Stephen, and is survived by his wife, Gayle (Johnson); parent,s Bob & Kay Bush; daughters, Morgann (& Shane) Crook and Lindsay (& Patrick) Andrew; brother, Mike (& Lynne); grandchildren Fischer, Parker, Charlotte, Rori, and one on the way; nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and too many life-long friends to count. John lived life to its fullest and was always the life of the party. He will be deeply missed by everyone who knew him. A private family service is being held Sunday. An adults only Celebration-of-Life Memorial will be held at Fircrest Golf Club on Wednesday, June 4 from 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made in John's honor to the YMCA-Camp Seymour or Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Please leave online condolences at www.GaffneyCares.com. Arrangements by Gaffney Funeral Home

01/23/1877 Death Location: SEATTLE, WA

538-32-0044 Social Security Number: 538-32-0044

Name: IDA JESSEN Death Date: 04/00/1970

Marius' WWI registration says his wife is Ida K. - they live at 912 Pike Street, Seattle, and he works at Rex Metal Works.

He was born October 28, 1885

California death index has Marius dying March 7, 1952 in Los Angeles

In 1909, the Golden Gate Hotel in Fairbanks was gutted by fire.

In 1907, Henry Bowman came to Alaska and became involved in businesses with his son Fred. In 1912, Fred married Anna Almholm, who was born in Oulu, Finland in 1885. They operated the Golden Gate Hotel in Fairbanks prior to moving to Anchorage in 1921.

Willis, Edward C. (Mrs.) Ruth Moseley 14 Sep 1912 Fairbanks

Might not be the same one - although an Edward Willis is a merchant in the 1920 census in Nulata - said he's married, but no wife - right age, and also born in Missouri.

Name: Mabel Welch Home in 1920: Fairbanks, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska Territory

Age: 34 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886 Birthplace: Nebraska

Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's Name: Fred F Welch

Father's Birth Place: Norway Mother's Birth Place: Iowa

Catherine is 10, and Fred. S. is 8.

In 1921's Interior Department Report - Fred F. Welch is listed as a Fourth Class Postmaster at Chatanika.

Fred and Mabel registered to vote in Los Angeles in 1924, residing at 842 W. 63^rd Place - both are Republicans.

Fred is registered in 1926, living at 4346 S. 2^nd Avenue, but not Mabel.

Mabel must have gone to Baja ! Sister Louise Malstrom also on the ship.

Name: Mabel Welch

Arrival Date: 6 Sep 1926

Age: 41 Birth Date: 14 Apr 1885 Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska, United States

Ship Name: Ruth Alexander Port of Arrival: Los Angeles, California Port of Departure: Ensenada, Mexico

In 1928 both are registered, still at 4326 S. 2^nd Avenue, both Republican

Don't see them in 1930, but in 1932 they are at 4348 2^nd Avenue, Fred a Democrat, Mabel a Republican.

At the same address is Miss Catherine Stratton, a Democratic Socialist.

In 1934 Fred and Mabel are at the same address, but not Catherine, and no registration for any of them after 1934.

Wonder if she's the Mrs. Catherine Welch registered in 1934 as a Democrat, living 715 N. Tujunga Ave, Los Angeles.

Possibles: 1838- Mrs. Catherine Thomson, housewife, 451 G, Coronado (San Diego)

1942 Mrs. Catherine Thomson, housewife, P.O.Box, Agua Caiente (Sonoma)

Alvin Ramon Stratton was born May 22, 1925 in Los Angeles. Mother's maiden name was Welch.

 L.A. Times

Wonder if this is the Alvin L. Stratton, 26 in the 1930 census, born in Tennessee, an electrician, living with his cousin. Single.

The Times of July 27, 1930 reported that Alvin L. Stratton, 26, and Margaret M. Abrahamson, 17, applied for a marriage license.

Possible -Name: A. L. Stratton SSN: 551-10-8428 Born: 6 Dec 1903 Died: Nov 1967 State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951)

Possibly one in a Norwegian family (immigrated in 1920) in Glendale.In 1934 and 1936 Ray L. and Margaret are on Base Line Rd, but there's a Miss Ruth F. Stratton living with them . All three are at 1019 East Base Line Road in 1946, 1948, 1950, and 1952. In the 1930 census, Ruth is their daughter, and this Ray L. and Margaret are too old to be the 1930 marriage license applicants.

And on May 26, 1933 the Times reported that Raymon O. Stratton, 29, and Augusta Colton, 26, applied for one.

Name: Mae Augusta Kingery
[Mae Augusta Colton] Social Security #: 572301417 Sex: Female Birth Date: 30 Aug 1893 Birthplace: Nebraska Death Date: 6 Nov 1980 Death Place: Sonoma Mother's Maiden Name: Cox Father's Surname: Colton

YES IT'S TEN YEARS DIFFERENCE

Name: Mae Kingery SSN: 572-30-1417 Last Residence: 95401 Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States of America Born: 30 Jun 1891 Last Benefit: 95401 Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States of America Died: Nov 1980

TWELVE YEARS DIFFERENCE

Very well could be the "wiper" on the U.S. Carrier Pigeon leaving the Phillipines in 1945 for San Francisco.

And on the Arcadia Victory from Manila for San Francisco, arriving March 14, 1946. He was a "wvt".

And a "f/wt" on the Rutland Victory from Japan to San Francisco in March 1947.

There's an Alvin Stratton in 1947 Phoenix living at 210 North 8^th Street - nine people living there, at least three of them female - so must be apartments.

POSSIBLE SON:

Name: Eric Vaughn Stratton Birth Date: 9 Mar 1949 Gender: Male Mother's Maiden Name: Stone Birth County: Los Angeles

February 10, 1957, December 21, 1957 and April 17, 1958 among the attendees at Torrance (CA) Fireladies functions was a Mrs. Alvin Stratton.. The February 4, 1954 said Mrs. Alvin Stratton was a new member.

That must be Dorothy -the 1948 and 1950 Keystone Precinct, Los Angeles County has Alvin R. and Dorothy S. Stratton, both at 23507 ½ Panama Avenue. Alvin is a DemocratSocialist, Dorothy a Republican. The 1952 and 1954 voter registration has Alvin R. and Dorothy at 3326 Dalemead Street, Torrance, both Republican.

That fall Ray took up skin-diving, and caught a record-setting abalone.

Ray and Dorothy were still together on Dalemead Street in November 1955 - touring a German tanker ship in the harbor. And in the 1956 and 1959 Torrance city directories.

In 1957 Ray did all the photography and publicity for the fire department's Muscular Dystrophy drive.

Ray was 36 when on April 13, 1963 he married Anne C. Frank in Los Angeles

In 1968 there's a Dorothy S. Stratton registered at 539 Peach Avenue, Brea, Los Angeles County.

Ray was 46, and married Joyce K. Isaak , 30, in Los Angeles on December 28, 1972.

Divorced Joyce in California December 1975

There's an Alvin RAM Stratton in the Curry County, Oregon death index. Same birth date. Death November 20, 1985. - and in SSDI with Alvin Ramon

In 1930 they're in Los Angeles (ANCESTRY 1930 DOES NOT HAVE THEM)

Daughter Catherine Stratton is divorced, and she and her 3-year-old son Ramon are living with the Welch's. Son Fred is 18.

Because the Pierce Brothers also did Benjamin Anderson's 1933 funeral, this might be "our" Fred with a funeral there November 2, 1932..

Fred , Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 - occupation was a carpenter, lived in Los Angeles. - had four years of high school. 5'7", 141 pounds.

One GenForum post by Kathy Scott says:

3. ISAAC S. WELCH (EZRA B., EDWARD) was born September 26, 1841 in Saratoga County, NY, and died April 28, 1924 in Millard, NE. He married SARAH COWMAN Abt. 1869 in Knoxville, IA. She died Bef. 1885.

Children of ISAAC WELCH and SARAH COWMAN are:
i. WILLIAM A. WELCH, b. September 19, 1871, Fairview, NE; d. November 19, 1943, Sarpy County, NE; m. MARY ANN GEHRINGER; b. December 03, 1875; d. March 16, 1964, Sarpy County, NE..
ii. FRED F. WELCH, b. April 09, 1873, Papillion, NE; d. Abt. 1932.
iii. HATTIE R. WELCH, b. March 14, 1877, Richland Precinct, NE; m. CHARLES GEORGE, Abt. 1901; b. Abt. 1867.

August 1946 the Times listed a license for Stratton - Price -A, 21, D. 19 Maybe….,

The 1949 Los Angeles directory has a Ramon A. Stratton, oilworker, married to Dorothy S., living at 23507 ½ Panama Ave.

California Death Index has: Mabel Welch
[Mabel Anderson] Sex: Female

Birth Date: 14 Apr 1885 Birthplace: Nebraska

Death Date: 27 Jan 1947 Death Place: Los Angeles

Mother's Maiden Name: Chezzum Father's Surname: Anderson

Catherine, after living with parents in 1930, might very well be the

Catherine M.W. Stratton 23 (M.W. for Mabel Welch ?) getting a license to marry.

William H. Thomson , 29, in Los Angeles Times November 16, 1933

In 1930 a William H. Thomson, age 25, born Illinois, is with his widowed mother on West 30^th in Los Angeles. He's an order clerk with the city. Three younger siblings are also living there. The family was in Knox County, Illinois in 1910 and in Los Angeles in 1920. (Thomas Weston and Agnes Thomson. Thomas was a battery repairman on South Main, living 1631 South Walton ? in Los Angeles in 1917)

Mr. and Mrs. William Thomson had a son on July 12, 1932 (newspaper) born at 14362 Magnolia Avenue

In 1934 William H. and Catherine Thomson are registered as Democrats, living at 1154 W. 42^nd, Los angeles.

Name: Thomas Fred Thomson

Birth Date: 20 Jul 1936 Los Angeles

Mother's Maiden Name: Welch

MAYBE

Thomas F. Thomson, born 1936, and Flora McElmurry, born 1937, married 1957, divorced L.A. 1969

Name: Flora Jane Mcelmurry Birth Date: 1 Oct 1937 Gender: Female Mother's Maiden Name: Skinner Birth County: Los Angeles

Name: Marian Gayl Harris Birth Date: 25 Feb 1944 Gender: Female Mother's Maiden Name: Steier Birth County: Los Angeles

Name: Marian G Harris Age: 19 Est. Birth: abt 1944 Spouse Name: Carl E Heffler Spouse Age: 24 Date: 12 May 1963 Location: Los Angeles

Name: Thomas F Thomson Age: 34

Spouse Name: Marian G Heffler Age: 26

Date: 18 Dec 1970 Location: Los Angeles City

Divorce index Thomas F Thomson born 1936 Spouse: Marian G Harris born 1944 married 1970 divorce: Los Angeles Date: Nov 1976

Name: Marian G Harris Age: 33 Est. Birth: abt 1944 Spouse Name: Merton D Lyon Spouse Age: 47 Date: 1 Jul 1977 Location: Los Angeles

AND the 1946 and 1948 Los Angeles voter registration has a Mrs. Catherine Thomson at 4348 2^nd Avenue. That's the Welch address. So Catherine moved back with her mother.

Name: Catherin M Shumny Social Security #: 556229352 (SSDI doesn't have that number or name)

Sex: Female Birth Date: 25 Nov 1909 Birthplace: Alaska

Death Date: 10 Feb 1967 Death Place: Los Angeles

Mother's Maiden Name: Anderson

L.A.Times Feb 1967

Name: Verna Patterson SSN: 534-20-2682 Last Residence: 83846 Mullan, Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America Born: 14 Dec 1907 Died: Apr 1978 State (Year) SSN issued: Washington (Before 1951)

Roy S. Patterson SSN: 518-03-0073 Born: 29 Jan 1904 Died: 28 Dec 1990

SSN issued: Idaho (Before 1951

Roy and Verna's ashes are in the Mountain View Cemetery - Shoshone County, Idaho.

Hazel Patterson SSN: 538-03-9772 Last Residence: Ridgefield, Clark, Washington,

Born: 20 Nov 1900 Died: Jan 1970 SSN issued: Washington (Before 1951 )

Hazel A. Patterson was a dear friend of Gloria Rittenberg's grandmother Sadie E. Grubbs. They attended the Church of God in Everett, Washington together.

Hazel's Memorial Service was held at the Church of God on Friday, January 23, 1970. Officiating: Rev. Roy W. Carney

Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Everett Washington in FindAGrave

Willis Patterson SSN: 533-05-6090

Last Residence: Riverside, Riverside, California,

Born: 25 May 1906 Died: Aug 1983

State (Year) SSN issued: Washington (Before 1951 )

Name: Willis Lee Patterson Social Security #: 533056090 Sex: Male

Birth Date: 25 May 1906 Birthplace: Washington

Death Date: 10 Aug 1983 Death Place: San Bernardino

Mother's Maiden Name: Schmidt

Name: Eliza Patterson

Date Of Death: 9 Sep 1942 Age: 79 Gender: Female

Father Name: Henry Chezem Mother Name: Mary Jane Hamlton

Death Place: Everett, Snohomish, Washington

Spouse Name: Lowell Patterson

Name: Lowell Lee Patterson

Date Of Death: 19 Jan 1945 Age: 83

Father Name: James Patterson Mother Name: Mary Willis

Death Place: Everett, Snohomish, Washington

Wife of A.C. Ellenwood
Died December 29, 1890
Aged 33 years, 3 months, 22 days

The 1890 Nebraska Gazeteer has Albert as a blacksmith in Ainsworth.

Albert C. ELLENWOOD 1929 13b

Luella ELLENWOOD 1942 13c

: Ada Gerecke Age in 1910: 29 Estimated Birth Year: 1881 Birthplace: Nebraska

Relation to Head of House: Wife

Father's Birth Place: Illinois Mother's Birth Place: Illinois

Spouse's Name: Edgar H Gerecke

Home in 1910: Lamar, Prowers, Colorado

In 1911 E.H. Gerecke was managing a sugar beet factory in Lamar. (city directory) - he's also secretary of the Commercial Club.

Name: Ada E Gerecke
[Ada E Gerectle]
[Ada E Gericke]

Home in 1920: Rocky Ford, Otero, Colorado

Age: 39 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881 Birthplace: Nebraska

Relation to Head of House: Wife

Spouse's Name: Edgar H Gerecke

Father's Birth Place: Illinois Mother's Birth Place: Illinois

Rocky Ford 1914-1915 city directory has

Gerecke, Edw H, assistant manager ABS Co, residence Factory Terrace (Ada)

Gerecke, Wm, residence Factory Terrace

American Beet Sugar Co., ROCKY FORD: Frank Noble,
Mgr.; E. H. Gerecke, Asst. Mgr.; W. J. Kellogg and C. A.
Allen, Supts.; W. A. Park, Chief Engr.; S. J. Kelso, M.
M.; I. W. Reed, Chem. Capacity, 1800 tons.

Name: Gladys Gerecke Home in 1930: Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Age: 23 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1907

Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Father's Name: Edgar H Gerecke - manages a sugar beet farm

Mother's Name: Adah E Gerecke

Edgar H. Gerecke, Jr. is 21, a bookkeeper at an alfalfa mill

Edgar H. in at Kansas State - majoring in agriculture - class of 1927.

LAWRENCE -- Edgar H. "Bus" Gerecke, 93, Lawrence, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002, at a Lawrence retirement community.

Mr. Gerecke was the manager of the Alfalfa Mill in Kornman, Colo., and later in Garden City. He was a night clerk at the Wheatlands Motel in Garden City from 1962 until he retired in 1989.

He was born July 15, 1908, in Rocky Ford, Colo., the son of Edgar H. and Ada Ellingwood Gerecke. He was reared in Rocky Ford, Colo., and Lamar, Colo., where he graduated from high school in 1925. He attended Kansas State University.

Mr. Gerecke was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a former member of the Garden City Rotary Club and the Presbyterian Church in Garden City.

He married Claudine Maize Smith in August 1935. She died in February 1986.

Survivors include a son, Kirk Gerecke, Lawrence.

200 N Weatherred Dr, Richardson, TX, 75080-5527 (1992)

Name: Geneva C. Booher SSN: 445-12-1346 Last Residence: 73703 Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma

Born: 6 Jul 1923 Died: 3 Mar 2005 SSN issued: Oklahoma (Before 1951)

Mrs. Booher was born on August 27, 1909 in Bailey, Texas the daughter of Sulley Brown and Elizabeth Frizzell Brown. Mrs. Booher married Walter Booher November 4, 1931 in Bnham, Texas and he preceded her in death on September 30, 1987. Also preceding Mrs. Booher was one son, Jack Booher, on April 30, 1988.

The Rev. Donald L. Booher died on Nov. 9, 2004, in Lansing, at the age of 75.

The Rev. Booher served as Pastor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Lansing for 32 years. Pastor Don was born on Dec. 2, 1928, in Enid, Okla., to Joseph D. Booher and Cleo M. (Pendergraft) Booher.

Mary Lou Cropper, 81, of El Dorado, Ark., passed away Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, at Medical Center of South Arkansas. She was born Aug. 27, 1929, in Enid, Okla., to Harry Olsen and Inez Shouse Olsen. Before retiring, Mary Lou and husband Clarence owned and operated the Sonic Drive In in El Dorado.

Preceding her in death were her parents and husband, Clarence Cropper.

Survivors include her daughter, Nancy Walker of Houston, Texas;

her son, Steve Cropper and wife Kathy of Minden, La.;

her daughter, Leslye Davis and husband Tommy of El Dorado;

nine grandchildren, Monica Randle, Stacey Piere (David) and Jessica Randle, all of Houston Texas, Amber Pauley (Jeremy) of El Dorado, Ark., Steven Cropper (Jennifer) of Camden, Ark., Laci Cropper of Minden, La., Carrie Oswalt of El Dorado, Ark., Mary Wade of El Dorado, Ark., and Sean Wren (Ashley) of Knoxville, Tenn.; and 18 great-grandchildren.

Visitation at Young's Funeral Home, El Dorado. Graveside service Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, at Arlington Memorial Park with Brother Mike Proctor officiating

Name: Jack Day

Marriage Event Date: 21 Jul 1916 Event Place:, Garfield, Oklahoma

Age: 21 Estimated Birth Year: 1895. Jack said he was born in Canada.

Spouse: Inez Shouse Age: 18

Witnesses were the minister's wife, Mrs. W.E. Pettigrew, and a Mrs. Frank Rowley

Name: Harry Olsen

Marriage Date: 28 Jun 1919 Event Place: , Garfield, Oklahoma Both live in Enid

Age: 25 Estimated Birth Year: 1894

Place of Marriage, Garfield, Oklahoma:

Spouse: Inez Cravens Miss - Age: 20 - Estimated Birth Year: 1899

Witnesses Mrs. T.E. Clay and Mrs. A.G. Smith (ministers' wife)

Name: Kenneth A Olsen Birth Year: 1920 Nativity Oklahoma Residence: Oklahoma County Garfield Enlistment Date: 27 Jan 1942 Enlistment State: Oklahoma Enlistment City: Oklahoma City Branch: Air Corps

Name: Clyde Herman RICHARDSON Given Name: Clyde Herman Surname: Richardson Sex: M

Birth: 26 Apr 1900 in Lehigh, Coal County, Oklahoma

In 1920 he was with his family in Ryals- McIntosh County, Oklahoma - no occupation at age 19.

Death: 8 Apr 1940 in Enid, Oklahoma, Garfield County, Burial Lackey Cemetery -Hitchita - McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Note: Clyde died at age 39. Clyde had a problem with his leg, and may have contributed with his death. It was a running sore, that would not heal.

• Married: 1933 in Enid, Oklahoma

2704 E Oak Ave, Enid, OK, 73701 is one address - probably from phone books.

Name: Kenneth Olsen SSN: 447-07-4405 Last Residence: 73701 Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma,

Born: 4 May 1920 Died: Apr 1986

SSN issued: Oklahoma (Before 1951)

1. PO Box 2916
2. Angleton, TX
3. Age: 50-54
   Associated: Jose L Zamora

January 27, 1995

Lucille Frances Cravens - SSDI last residence Angleton, Brazoia County, Texas

There's a Joe Ralph Cravens in Oklahoma City registering for WWI

• says he was born October 21, 1895 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, is a cook at Jerry's Lunch Room, lives at 9274 West Main, has a wife and child. - and was a private in the 7^th Field Artillery.
• In 1915 he had been at Fort Sill - and had a record of desertion from Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis)

This matches the 1900 census in Spring Garden, Miller County Missouri, where a Ralph J Cravens - father Walter S., born April 1872 in Missouri, no occupation listed. - Mother Maggie M, born June 1877 in Missouri.

And the 1910 Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, with a W.C. Crarnes as a druggist, 40, born Missouri, and Maggie M., 31, born Missouri. Jno Ralph is 14, born Missouri. Willard is 13, and his WWI registration in Independence, Missouri says he was born in Spring Garden, Missouri. His relative is Mrs. Margaret Cravens of Memphis, Texas (not too far west of Lawton) FindAGrave has a Willard B Cravens 1897-1977 in Thayer Cemetery, Oregon County Missouri.

Strange 1920 census entry for MR. Margaret Cravens, rooming in Wichita Falls, Texas - not too far from Lawton or Memphis. Female, unknown age, real estate - (index has "servant"). So Walter and Margaret split, it seems.

Possible - 1930 in Mineral Wells (about a hundred miles south in Palo Pinto County) - where a Margaret M. Cravens stepdaughter - born Missouri 1893 - but Jhon R. (sic)(81) and Sarah Jane (75) Bass - both born Missouri o- are a little old . She's "widowed" - but no age-of-first-marriage and a bookkeeper for an oil company (most people on those census pages work for oil companiies. Ancestry index has "CRARENS". - bet Sarah or Jhon gave Margaret's info to the census taker.

Census has Jhon first marrying at age 19 - which would have been about 1868, and Sarah at 21 - which would have been about 1876. If that's correct, then Jhon was married (at least once) before he married Sarah,

In 1920 John P. and Sarah were in Memphis - Hall County - retired farmer - which is where Margaret was in 1920…

And in 1910 John P., widowed, is living with son George in Hall County. Said he was born in 1851…

In 1880 there's a John P. Bass in Wise County (a couple of counties northeast of Palo Pinto) married to Mary.

They were still there in 1900 - said they were married in 1868.

A Mary I Bass died in August 22, 1905 in Wise County, but FindAGrave says she was wife of E.O., and born in 1881. So probably not John's wife.

John's son George is also buried in Hall County - said his mother's name was Mary Sheperle

John Perry Bass died 1936 in Palo Pinto County, and he and Sarah are buried in Fairview Cemetery, Hall County. Tombstone says Sept 14, 1848 - June 19, 1936. Sarah July 24, 1854 -August 25, 1942.

This family isn't related, but just wanted to know how Margaret was abandoned by her husband and children……

POSSIBLE

Amarillo December 1950 fire in convalescent home: - ten dead

MRS. MARGARET CRAVENS, 45, of Kansas City, Mo., could hardly talk because of smoke inhaled at the fire;

All other names in the article were over 70 - so this might be a misprint.

Name: Margaret Cravens Death Date: 27 Jul 1954 Death Place: Wichita, Texas Age: 76 years Estimated Birth Date: 1878 No other info.on death certificate - she died at the State Hospital in Wichita Falls.

Place of Residence: Amarillo, Potter, Texas Cemetery: Rosemont Burial Place: Wichita Falls, Texas

Burial Date: 04 Aug 1954

Rosemont records show a Margaret CRAIN buried August 3, Block L - Lot 12, Space 12. All the burials in that section seem to be single and sort of chronological order, so they might be unclaimed state hospital deaths.

Walter Cravens

Birth: Apr. 17, 1871 Missouri, USA

Death: Oct. 27, 1927 Independence Jackson County Missouri,
Son of Emsley W. and Frances Jane (Faut) Cravens.
Walter Scott Cravens married Belle Bryant on June 23rd 1914 in Jackson County, MO.

A Walter S. Cravens is in Independence, Missouri in 1920 - age matches, and he's a pharmacist. He's married to Belle, 44, born Missouri.

But in 1930 Excelsior Springs is a Walter A. Craven - insurance agent, born 1870 in Missouri, and Maybelle, born 1881 in Missouri.

They were in Excelsior Springs in 1910 - with no children - so must have been two Walter Cravens……

And on D Street in 1920 Lawton (right next to Fort Sill) is a Joe Cravins, 24, born Missouri. He's a cook in a restaurant , and married to a 17-year-old Texas-born Elma.

In 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cravens and chilcren of Nachitoches (Louisiana) were weekend guests of A.T. Cain family in Rusk, Texas.